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Understanding 9/11The Big Green CD 8
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- Publication date
- 1998-04-29
- Topics
- Skylee Press, NeXT, NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody, Yellow Box, Steve Jobs, Apple, Software, Shareware
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 1.9G
From kevra.org's Best Of Next museum:
The Big Green CD (BGCD) was the best-selling and oldest continually published collection of redistributable software for NEXTSTEP. The Rock Ridge-compatible CD-ROM contained the latest in freeware and shareware software for both NeXTStep and BSD UNIX, organized in an easy-to-navigate way. The BGCD was one of Skylee Press's attempts to disseminate the fruits of the NEXTSTEP community. The contents of the disc were completely redistributable, though some was shareware, for which you must pay a reasonable fee directly to its author if you enjoy it or find it useful.
This collection includes all three discs (App, Dev, and Lib) of The Big Green CD for NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody, and Yellow Box platforms, including material for m68k, i386, hppa, sparc, and ppc architectures. The discs are in Rock Ridge format, but will not open under Windows, so I recommend getting some kind of virtual machine (ideally Previous—it's a lot easier to set up than an Intel VM for NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, or Rhapsody) if you're stuck on that platform.
This edition of BGCD is noteworthy in that it includes the final versions of the Lighthouse office suite applications that were abandonwared when Sun bought them up with the intention of sabotaging NeXT's share in the productivity market. However, the Lighthouse/README file only mentions URLs where you can get the license keys, not the keys themselves, and the URLs provided are no longer accurate. Fortunately, they've been archived, and are as follows:
| Product Version Numbers | FREE | Download | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRODUCT | VERSION # | 2-User License | |
| AirMail | 3.1.5 | opppjldfd | Download |
| Concurrence | 2.77 | 544445qor | Download |
| Diagram | 2.5 | llllkhjj | Download |
| Equation Builder | 3.3 | dccdptqor | Download |
| Filter Servicer (for Concurrence, TaskMaster & Quantrix) | 2.3 | Not Needed | Download |
| OpenWrite | 2.1.8 | 452r04643 | Download |
| Converter Installer (for OpenWrite) | 2.1 | Not Needed | Download |
| ParaSheet | 1.7 | ghhhikrpr | Download |
| Quantrix | 2.4 | 8999dwtvr | Download |
| Tables | 2.0 | Not Needed | Download |
| TaskMaster | 1.81 | badkfetvn | Download |
| VarioBuilder | 3.22 | Not Needed | Download |
| VarioData | 3.22 | 100056b9b | Download |
| WetPaint | 1.7 | tsssqoprr | Download |
There's a lot of other stuff on the CDs, including searchable indexes of NeXT-related newsgroups and technical documentation that are otherwise hard to track down. A must-have for anyone interested in heritage computing.
Special thanks to A. for ripping these discs from their collection!
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